Installing JDK in Fedora 17 (Updated for the JDK 6.0 update 35 64 bits)

Owl Dev. X fedora July 6, 2010September 19, 2012 1 Minute

First thing we need to do is get the JDK installer
JDK Home @ Oracle.com

Once we have the installer in our local repository (as root):

chmod a+x  jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin
./jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin

Let’s update our alternatives:

alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35/jre/bin/java 20000
alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35/jre/bin/javaws 20000
alternatives --install /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 20000
alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35/bin/javac 20000
alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35/bin/jar 20000

To confirm that our installation is successfull:

java -version

Should give us an ouptput like this:

#java -version
java version "1.6.0_35"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_35-b10)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.10-b01, mixed mode)

That’s it. Enjoy.

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Published July 6, 2010September 19, 2012

15 thoughts on “Installing JDK in Fedora 17 (Updated for the JDK 6.0 update 35 64 bits)”

Matt says:

July 7, 2010 at 12:53 am

Thank you, this really truly helped me! I could install Java just fine up until the update-alternatives part but this fixed it 100%!

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1. wporta says:
  
  July 7, 2010 at 4:38 am
  
  You’re welcome Matt..
  
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Irvan Ferdiawan says:

July 7, 2010 at 7:22 am

Great tutorial. Help me much

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Moritz Obermeier says:

July 14, 2010 at 2:31 pm

The comment in /etc/profile states that it is better to create the file /etc/profile.d/custom.sh and add variables there, instead of modifying /etc/profile itsself. Therefore I put the following code into /etc/profile.d/custom.sh:

pathmunge () { case ":${PATH}:" in *:"$1":*) ;; *) if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then PATH=$PATH:$1 else PATH=$1:$PATH fi esac }
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21 pathmunge $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin after export JAVA_HOME

Worked like a charm, thanks!

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1. Jozsef says:
  
  August 4, 2010 at 8:33 am
  
  Is this replacing all things I can see after the line “Next, we must add these two lines to the file: /etc/profile” in the initial post above?
  
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Jozsef says:

August 4, 2010 at 9:03 am

java -version is giving me this:

bash: java: command not found

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1. wporta says:
  
  August 4, 2010 at 2:45 pm
  
  Thanks for your comment…
  
  Will you please let me know what version of the JDK did you downloaded? Please paste the exact file name.
  
  Hint: If you downloaded the file: jdk-6u21-linux-x64-rpm.bin … then you must replace in the /etc/profile: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20 for JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21
  
  And then:
  
  export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20
  export JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY=16020
  
  Replace it with:
  
  export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21
  export JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY=16021
  
  The rest of the steps remains the same..
  I Hope this will work for you…
  
  I’m working with the 64 bits version… but should work with the 32 bits version as well…
  
  **** I just updated the post for the JDK 6.0 update 21 64 bits version...****
  
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  1. Jozsef says:
    
    August 4, 2010 at 5:20 pm
    
    It’s fixed already. the problem was that I downloaded .bin instead of rpm.bin version of JDK. It was a mistake in the initial post. now it seems fixed already. at least for Fedora, the right version is rpm.bin
    
    Thanks anyway.
Andrew says:

August 16, 2010 at 8:58 pm

When I went to do the next to the last step (export the alternatives), some of them failed (javadoc, appletviewer, javah, & jar), as follows:

[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto java
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto javadoc
failed to read link /usr/bin/javadoc: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto appletviewer
failed to read link /usr/bin/appletviewer: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto javah
failed to read link /usr/bin/javah: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto javac
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto jar
failed to read link /usr/bin/jar: No such file or directory

I assume it is because my default install on Fedora13 did not have those commands previously identified to alternatives, but I don’t know what I need to do to fix them correctly. Any help?

Thanks.

Andrew

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1. wporta says:
  
  August 16, 2010 at 9:19 pm
  
  Hi Andrew, thank you for your comment.
  
  Is this the first time you install JDK on your computer, or do you have a previous installation of JDK (lower version)?
  
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  1. Andrew says:
    
    August 16, 2010 at 10:23 pm
    
    There is a previous version of jre-1.5.0-gcj and jre-1.6.0-openjdk that were installed as part of the os install. Not sure if that answered the question – jre and openjdk? Also, I am trying to figure out alternatives — what a mess – no idea what I am doing. Below is a listing of my “alternatives –display java”. Notice that it has slaves pointing to null for the latest Sun JDK 1.6.0.21, including jre. Any help appreciated – thanks!
    
    alternatives –display java
    java – status is auto.
    link currently points to /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/java
    /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java – priority 16000
    slave javaws: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/javaws
    slave keytool: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/keytool
    slave orbd: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/orbd
    slave pack200: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/pack200
    slave rmid: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/rmid
    slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/rmiregistry
    slave servertool: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/servertool
    slave tnameserv: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/tnameserv
    slave unpack200: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/unpack200
    slave jre_exports: /usr/lib/jvm-exports/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
    slave jre: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
    slave java.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/java-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave keytool.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/keytool-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave orbd.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/orbd-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave pack200.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pack200-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave rmid.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/rmid-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave rmiregistry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/rmiregistry-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave servertool.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/servertool-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave tnameserv.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/tnameserv-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    slave unpack200.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/unpack200-java-1.6.0-openjdk.1.gz
    /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java – priority 1500
    slave javaws: (null)
    slave keytool: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/keytool
    slave orbd: (null)
    slave pack200: (null)
    slave rmid: (null)
    slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/rmiregistry
    slave servertool: (null)
    slave tnameserv: (null)
    slave unpack200: (null)
    slave jre_exports: /usr/lib/jvm-exports/jre-1.5.0-gcj
    slave jre: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj
    slave java.1.gz: (null)
    slave keytool.1.gz: (null)
    slave orbd.1.gz: (null)
    slave pack200.1.gz: (null)
    slave rmid.1.gz: (null)
    slave rmiregistry.1.gz: (null)
    slave servertool.1.gz: (null)
    slave tnameserv.1.gz: (null)
    slave unpack200.1.gz: (null)
    /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/java – priority 16021
    slave javaws: (null)
    slave keytool: (null)
    slave orbd: (null)
    slave pack200: (null)
    slave rmid: (null)
    slave rmiregistry: (null)
    slave servertool: (null)
    slave tnameserv: (null)
    slave unpack200: (null)
    slave jre_exports: (null)
    slave jre: (null)
    slave java.1.gz: (null)
    slave keytool.1.gz: (null)
    slave orbd.1.gz: (null)
    slave pack200.1.gz: (null)
    slave rmid.1.gz: (null)
    slave rmiregistry.1.gz: (null)
    slave servertool.1.gz: (null)
    slave tnameserv.1.gz: (null)
    slave unpack200.1.gz: (null)
    Current `best’ version is /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/java.
  2. wporta says:
    
    August 17, 2010 at 4:40 pm
    
    Andrew, for some reason, your exporting is not working…
    
    Please do this at command line:
    
    echo $JAVA_HOME
    
    It should output this: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20
    
    If this is not your result, please do this:
    
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21
    export JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY=16021
    
    Your link is Ok.. But your priority is not..
    
    Please do that and review again all the steps that I have in the post and see if you missed one or got one wrong.
Andrew says:

August 17, 2010 at 9:27 pm

I have verified the shell variables and they are set. The alternatives –display java shows output which confirms that at least the java entry succeded:

/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/java – priority 16021

If the export had not worked then the update-alternatives –install lines for all 6 items would have failed because of too few parameters. As it is, all six install commands worked, and 2 of the 6 update-alternatives –auto worked (4 errors). All of the errors say failed to read link /usr/bin/….. I pulled the results from running the commands above (which were cut/paste from the page) from my shell window history and pasted them below. Note that the java -version was successful and shows java version “1.6.0_21” as a response.

[root@andes jdk]# vi /etc/profile
[root@andes jdk]# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21
[root@andes jdk]# export JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY=16021
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java $JAVA_HOME/bin/java $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/javadoc javadoc $JAVA_HOME/bin/javadoc $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/appletviewer appletviewer $JAVA_HOME/bin/appletviewer $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/javah javah $JAVA_HOME/bin/javah $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/javac javac $JAVA_HOME/bin/javac $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/jar jar $JAVA_HOME/bin/jar $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto java
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto javadoc
failed to read link /usr/bin/javadoc: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto appletviewer
failed to read link /usr/bin/appletviewer: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto javah
failed to read link /usr/bin/javah: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto javac
[root@andes jdk]# /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto jar
failed to read link /usr/bin/jar: No such file or directory
[root@andes jdk]# java -version
java version “1.6.0_21”

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1. Banji says:
  
  December 28, 2010 at 7:39 am
  
  I found out that if I get the message “failed to read link /usr/bin/: No such file or directory” removing and recreating the symlink helped.
  
  1. What I did was look at where the symlink was pointing
  2. Remove it if it was pointing to /etc/alternatives.
  3. Create a new symlink in /usr/bin/java-component pointing to /usr/java/jdk1.6.0.21/bin/
  4. Run /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/ $JAVA_HOME/bin/ $JAVA_ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY
  5. Do /usr/sbin/update-alternatives –auto
  
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